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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
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First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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a year ago
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
a month ago
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
3 weeks ago
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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a year ago
TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
5 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
Flashbak
François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
a month ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
TheCollector
Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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2 weeks ago
Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
3 weeks ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
a year ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
12 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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a year ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
6 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
2 months ago
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
3 weeks ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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3 weeks ago
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
3 weeks ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
2 weeks ago
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
TheCollector
Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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4 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
3 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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3 weeks ago
Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
5 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
TheCollector
5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
TheCollector
George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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a week ago
TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
7 months ago
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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a year ago
TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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10 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
a week ago
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
3 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
a year ago
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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3 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Feels Gone Wrong
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
2 days ago
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
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